Most of the concubines who have lived in the palace for a long time are sick and have been interacting with Dan medicine and decoction for many years. The health care of concubines is one of the highlights of this exhibition. Because the pursuit of longevity and good luck is also the beautiful wish of every concubine in the Forbidden City. However, due to long-term living in the palace, loneliness and lack of physical exercise, most of them are weak and some even suffer from chronic diseases. They have interacted with pills for many years, accompanied by decoction.
There are a large number of prescriptions and medicines for concubines in the royal pharmacy in Qing Dynasty, which provides detailed evidence for future generations to understand the treatment and health care of concubines in Qing Dynasty. In addition, among the palace prescriptions of the Palace Museum, there are prescriptions for preventing miscarriage, tonifying kidney, regulating qi, promoting blood circulation and strengthening spleen. But it has not been made public, nor has it been rationally developed and utilized.
Although concubines are pampered, there are not many toys to pass the time. The leisure life of concubines in the deep palace is also the topic that people are most concerned about. Those concubines who are "chosen into the palace and loved by thousands of people" enjoy splendor on the surface, but in real life they are like imprisoned canaries. The thick palace wall separates them from the bustling city outside the Forbidden City.
Make-up should be shaved, and spring scenery should be deeply sad. In fact, in their spare time, your concubines can only paste yellow on the mirror, adjust fat and powder, or thread needles, embroider wallets, or pinch walnuts with their hands to refresh themselves, or get together at a table, play cards, or take pipes, smoke cigarettes, or draw things with painters.
The exhibits on display in the Forbidden City choose some concubines' toys to kill time. These cultural relics vividly show their leisure to the audience.
In the "Zhu Cuihua Clothing" exhibition area, all kinds of jewelry worn by concubines are displayed, which fully embodies the royal style of flowing gold. As a special group accompanying the emperor, concubines lived a luxurious parasitic life. In all kinds of living expenses, only clothing and jewelry are countless. The clothes of concubines include robes, gowns, skirts, gowns, vests, crowns, couplets, square towels and hairpin.
Jin Fei's living state booth is in the back hall of Yonghe Palace. Jin Fei has been living in the back hall of Yonghe Palace since she entered the palace in June 1888+00. Today, her life is still the same, just like when Jin Fei entered the palace, the double happiness bed of dragons and phoenixes in Shunzhi Xicang and the sticker couplets written by Jin Fei in Tongzhi Dongcang all showed the world a portrayal of the princess's life in the late Qing Dynasty.
From Empress Dowager Cixi to the nobility, the daily supply of food, meat and vegetables is different. The exhibition of concubines' life in Qing Dynasty held in Yonghe Palace is divided into several parts, such as women's selection, conferring system, daily life, health care, leisure life, Zhu Cuihua costumes and gold concubines' life exhibition.
The choice of prostitutes is an important feature of the imperial concubine system in Qing Dynasty. The selection of famous prostitutes in the Qing Dynasty was hosted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and held once every three years. In order to keep the purity of the flag bearer, only women with Manchu, Mongolian, Han and Eight Banners can be selected. In order to ensure the emperor's complete possession of "female nuns", it is necessary to select unmarried female flag bearers between 13 and 17. The chosen person is a nun in the abbot's department, asking the emperor to choose a concubine or marry a prince. Only unsuccessful people can get married. When the emperor reaches marriageable age, he will choose to re-register a convent.
The concubines system in Qing Dynasty was hierarchical. After the Qing dynasty, the level of concubines must be determined by the ceremony of "book" and "seal". The emperor's wedding ceremony was grand and complicated; The ceremony of conferring concubines is relatively simple. "Book" and "seal" are the representatives of the innate rights of empresses. Their roles were drawn up by the Ministry of Rites and engraved by the Ministry of Industry. According to the title system of the Qing dynasty, empresses all have gold books and seals, while concubines only have gold books and no gold seals.
And concubines for daily use, including palace points and palace shops. Tribute is a regulation on the variety and quantity of gold and silver, cloth, grain, meat, vegetables and non-staple food. Every year, Empress Dowager Cixi, nobles, Chang Dai, Wuji, etc. Supply by grade, including satin, mink, rice flour, charcoal wax, etc. Paving palaces refers to the regulations on the types and quantities of different grades of metal utensils, porcelain and lacquerware used by Empress Dowager Cixi, Empress Dowager Cixi, concubines and Fujin palaces. In the hierarchical place of Qing Palace, the amount of daily consumption is obviously different because of the different names of concubines, and the names of concubines decrease with different grades.